While Oracle has announced vendor support for OEL in the past, including EMC and Hitachi, Symantec is the first of the big independent software vendors to certify its products with OEL, which is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux with additional patches and bug fixes.
Specifically, Symentec announced that six Veritas software products have been certified with OEL and will be supported by both vendors via Oracle’s Unbreakable Linux support program. The six products are Storage Foundation 5.0, Storage Foundation for Oracle 5.0, Veritas Storage Foundation Cluster File System 5.0, Veritas Cluster Server 5.0, Veritas NetBackup 6.0 Client, and Veritas i3.
Symantec also announced that it has worked with Oracle to certify Veritas Storage Foundation Cluster File System with Oracle Real Application Clusters on OEL as well as RHEL and Novell SUSE Enterprise Linux.
Oracle unveiled its Unbreakable Linux program in October 2006, promising to match Red Hat support at half the price with its own enterprise-level patches and bug fixes. While Red Hat has largely shrugged off the impact and Unbreakable was slow to get moving, Oracle has demonstrated signs of success in recent months. In March the company named 26 customers for the support program, including IHOP, Timex, Diebold, Yahoo, GlobeCast, ABC Stores, Stuart Maue, Replacements, Mutual Materials, and Hays Medical Center.
Then in April the company announced the names of its first Unbreakable hardware and software partners, including heavyweights such as EMC, Hitachi Data Systems, and Network Appliance, as well as 170 Systems, AppWorx, Egenera, Emulex, LSI, Patchlink, Pillar Data Systems, QLogic, and Synoran.
